Acrylamide in alternative snacks to potato: A review.

The snack food market has been changing to keep up with the growing demand for healthier products and, as a result, alternative products to traditional potato chips have been emerging to provide health-related benefits. Extrusion, frying, and baking are the main techniques used worldwide in the processing of snacks and are among the main reasons for the formation of toxic compounds induced by heat, such as acrylamide. This contaminant is formed during thermal processing in foods heated at high temperatures and rich in carbohydrates.

Quality measurements of cuiabana-type pork sausages added with brewing by-product flours.

The objective of this study was to evaluate the replacement of part of the pork from Cuiabana sausage by a brewery by-product on the physicochemical and microbiological properties during storage. Brewery by-product (BW) concentration influenced sausage colouration, with reduced luminosity, L*: 52.060 in the 6% (w/w) treatment compared to the 0% treatment controls (L*: 63.

[Biochemical and chemical partial characterization of Bauhinia forficata Link seeds].

Seeds of Bauhinia forficata species were submited to biochemical characterization concerning fatty acids analysis, protein fractionization, and hemaglutinanting activity. The seed elementary analysis showed a high protein and lipids contents with 21.24% and 19.

Chemical composition and insecticidal activity of essential oils from Vanillosmopsis pohlii baker against Bemisia argentifolii.

Essential oils from the heartwood and leaves of specimens of Vanillosmopsis pohlii collected in two different localities were analyzed by GC-MS. The major constituent of both heartwood essential oils was the sesquiterpene alpha-bisabolol. Essential oil composition from leaves was quite different for two specimens and showed beta-pinene and E-caryophyllene as principal constituents.

Antidiabetic activity of Bauhinia forficata extracts in alloxan-diabetic rats.

The antidiabetic activity of aqueous, ethanolic and hexanic extracts of Bauhinia forficata was investigated in a model of alloxan-induced diabetes in rats. The biochemical parameters studied were: plasma glucose, serum triglycerides, cholesterol, high density lipoprotein (HDL), and low density lipoprotein (LDL). Extracts were administered daily for 7 d at doses of 200 and 400 mg/kg, p.